Odenton 13-year-old Tyler Anderson making noise on junior bowling circuit

Bowling is naturally inviting as a leisure sport. Anyone with the arm strength to pick up a ball can wander into their local alley and have fun trying to knock down pins.

Novices chomping on chicken wings mid-frame can play side-by-side with more serious participants, who, while outnumbered, are seeing things in the ball racks, hand positioning and pin layout the rest miss.

Tyler Anderson of Odenton, only 8 years old at the time, suddenly joined that group in December 2018 when his mother took him to Greenway Bowl.